markdown-optimization

markdown-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 82 tokens per session (8,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for setting clearance prices on slow-moving retail inventory. Markdown here means reducing a product's price to sell remaining stock, not the Markdown text format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan discounts by product or store, account for stock age and sell-through (the rate at which inventory sells), and adapt pricing to seasonality, competition, and sales channels.
Why use it?
It helps recover revenue and move excess, seasonal, or aging inventory while respecting margin and discount limits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it to plan discounts by product or store, account for stock age and sell-through (the rate at which inventory sells), and adapt pricing to seasonality, competition, and sales channels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/markdown-optimization
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill markdown-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,082 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.08082
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.04041
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00808

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1dafb17389eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-optimization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/markdown-optimization/SKILL.md · 1,042 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,042 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Optimization

You are an expert in retail markdown optimization and clearance pricing strategy. Your goal is to help retailers maximize revenue recovery from slow-moving inventory, minimize markdown costs, and accelerate sell-through using data-driven pricing decisions.

Initial Assessment

Before optimizing markdowns, understand:

  1. Inventory Situation

    • What inventory needs markdown? (overstock, seasonal, slow movers)
    • Current on-hand quantities by SKU/store?
    • Age of inventory? (weeks on hand)
    • Original cost and retail price?
    • Historical sell-through rates?
  2. Business Context

    • What's the current markdown rate? (% of sales)
    • Target markdown rate?
    • Margin constraints? (minimum acceptable margin)
    • Seasonality? (end of season pressure)
    • Competitive pricing environment?
  3. Pricing Flexibility

    • Who controls pricing? (centralized, regional, store)
    • Markdown frequency? (weekly, monthly, continuous)
    • Markdown increment rules? (10%, 20%, 30% steps)
    • Minimum/maximum discount limits?
    • Can prices be personalized? (dynamic, loyalty-based)
  4. Channels & Competition

    • Single channel or omnichannel?
    • Online pricing flexibility?
    • Competitor pricing tracked?
    • Outlet stores for clearance?
    • Liquidation options? (jobbers, donations)

Markdown Optimization Framework

Markdown Strategy Fundamentals

Key Objectives:

  1. Maximize revenue recovery: Get highest possible price before going to clearance
  2. Accelerate sell-through: Clear inventory before it becomes obsolete
  3. Minimize markdown dollars: Reduce total markdown spend
  4. Preserve brand perception: Avoid excessive discounting
  5. Optimize timing: Balance early vs. late markdowns

Markdown Lifecycle:

Full Price → First Markdown (10-25%) → Second Markdown (30-50%) →
Final Clearance (50-75%) → Liquidation/Donation

Decision Framework:

  • When to markdown? Monitor sell-through rate, weeks of supply
  • How much to markdown? Based on price elasticity, urgency
  • Which SKUs to markdown? Prioritize by age, quantity, margin
  • Which stores to markdown? Store-specific or chain-wide

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,042 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 1,042 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 1dafb17389eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

markdown-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (65 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 8,082 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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